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Helping hearts: Team sends much-needed pacemakers to Ukraine

Ukraine is the most recent country to receive refurbished pacemakers from Michigan Medicine's unique My Heart Your Heart program.
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Announcing the Josip Matovinovic Clinical Medicine Fellowship

Early-career physicians from low-resource settings will have the opportunity to spend a year at Michigan Medicine as a visiting scholar through a new endowed fellowship program.
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Director's Message: Announcing new authorization requirements for students traveling abroad

New rules will ensure safety and help keep track of traveling students.
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Growing Medicine in Spanish program for UMMS students set to kick-off 22-23 session

Three years since its re-introduction, a student-driven Medicine in Spanish program at UMMS is thriving.
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CUGH conference: New research shows virtues of going virtual

Recent UMMS-led publications document increased attendance, reduced carbon footprint for the 2021 conference
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CSC Announces New Awardees

Clinical Simulation Center introduces inaugural yearly awards
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Funding announcement: Partnership Development Grants returning for 2022

Applications for 2022 Partnership Development Grants are due Sept. 30, 2022.
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Ensuring ‘Equity’ in partnerships: Collaborators offer definition to shape global health discourse, decisions

What exactly is meant by ‘global health equity’? In a recent publication, a group of prominent researchers offers a new definition.
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Global Health Research Certificate Program seeks participants for 2022-23 session

The application deadline is Aug. 20, 2022 for the session set to begin this fall.
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Global health research training program to continue, expand following NIH Fogarty grant

A program that provides U-M trainees with opportunities for extended mentored research training experiences abroad will continue following a recent federal grant renewal.
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U-M study: Depression incidence and factors among residents are similar in China and US

Though a world apart, first-year residents in the United States and China have more in common than they might imagine, including bouts of depression, a new study suggests.
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U-M, AKU collaborators: Africa needs Artificial Intelligence for better health

Using colorectal cancer as a test case, research collaborators from U-M and the Aga Khan University (AKU) are proposing that AI and machine learning could be effective in addressing some of the continent’s health challenges.
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New UMMS-led Family Planning Fellowship in Ethiopia having an impact

Established with help from Michigan Medicine, a new fellowship program in Ethiopia for family planning and reproductive health is improving maternal care and increasing options for women.
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CSC Executive Director Promoted

Jame M. Cooke was recently promoted to full professor
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UMMS to help Rwanda train pediatric cardiologists

A faculty member has garnered a Fulbright scholarship to spend the upcoming year in Rwanda developing the nation’s first pediatric cardiology training program.